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Post-COVID Orthodontics
Post-COVID orthodontics has permanently shifted toward more digital workflows, flexible scheduling, and patient expectations for convenience, reshaping how modern practices operate and communicate.
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Measuring What Matters in the Orthodontic Patient Experience
Jessica Bryson explains how moving from intuition to structured patient experience metrics drives stronger compliance, referrals, and growth.
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Solventum: A new name. A stronger focus on solving.
In 2024, 3M Health Care became Solventum, an independent health care company built to move faster, think differently, and stay deeply connected to the professionals they serve. While their name is new, their purpose is not. The company is built on a long legacy of scientific expertise, trusted partnerships, and breakthrough innovation. For decades, health care professionals relied on 3M Health Care to help solve complex challenges. Today, as Solventum, the company continues that work with renewed focus and momentum, dedicated entirely to health care and driven by the people who deliver it every day.
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Expanding the Adult Maxilla Without Surgery: A Case for Biologic Acceleration
A new case documents roughly 6 mm of non-surgical transverse expansion in an adult patient, along with surprising airway and sleep improvements that suggest photobiomodulation may be opening treatment doors long considered closed.
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Marketing in 2026: Why Your Treatment Coordinator Matters More Than Your Ads
A candid breakdown argues most orthodontic practices don't have a lead problem but a conversion problem, and identifies the four drivers that separate the practices that grow from those stuck throwing money at ads.
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Dentistry Uncensored with Howard Farran

1694 The TMJ Blind Spot
In this episode, Howard Farran sits down with Dr. William Cliff, practicing endodontist and Founder and CEO of Asesso Health. With over 28 years of clinical experience, Dr. Cliff shares how repeated frustration with undiagnosed TMJ and bruxism patients led him to create a first-of-its-kind integrated solution — combining a dentist-designed grind guard, a proprietary sensor module, and a mobile app that tracks grinding intensity, sleep quality, and jaw pain over time. The conversation explores the gap between tooth pain and jaw pain, why traditional night guards fail patients, and how real-time data is changing the way dentists and patients approach treatment and accountability.
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